How does he have no input?

Of course they don’t have to spend all their time together, but sometimes you have to buy shit for your family, and expecting that 1/2 of the partnership will buy all the kids’ clothes, all the household goods, all the groceries, all the birthday gifts for the in-laws, ect. is unreasonable in this day and age. If you…

I got married last year and I can’t imagine how much I would be losing my shit.

Do you also judge everyone who eats in nice restaurants? You can only eat that meal once and afterwards you don’t even have an item you can turn into something else like a christening gown or a quilt.

Have you somehow made it through life without being involved in a wedding? Every damn little thing in a wedding costs 7,000 times what you think it should cost. You’ll drop $4,500 just on the salt and pepper shakers. A wedding dress? Yeah, that’s going to be more than a few hundred bucks.

And tons of men buy $300 jerseys without blinking an eye. A dress that is made to order and probably has a ton of lace, sequins, pearls, etc. sewn on it is going to cost more than a t-shirt. Surprise!

Instead of buying a wedding dress, go to Disneyland.

They are paying for the experience THEY want.

How expensive can some of these dresses be? If you’re out a few hundred bucks and some time, that sucks but it’s not a disaster.

Right? Whether the specific instance is something you approve of or not, if you can’t empathize with someone paying money for a good or service and then receiving no goods and no services and having their money literally disappear with no accountability and through no fault of their own, then you’ve got bigger…

It’s not just the cost of the dress - it’s also the fact that they are almost always made-to-measure (you pick out the dress you like which is then altered to fit your measurements exactly) or heavily altered both for fit and for taste (you can often get the peripherals of the dress like sleeves, sashes, and other…

They got fucked over and that’s never ok no matter how much money you’re spending on something deemed frivolous by people whose opinions don’t matter.

I mean...I’m very anti-weddings myself, and find lavish, expensive weddings terribly passé...but even I can empathize with the stress and disappointment of paying hundreds of dollars for something and getting the shaft.

I don’t know how much these dresses cost, but a few hundred bucks is a lot of money to literally millions of Americans.

Doesn’t matter if it’s too much. Matters that they bought it and the store isn’t delivering the product.

I’m guessing you’re a man?

Uhh thousands? Plus it takes up to months to get a wedding dress in. These brides are likely now going to have to buy off the rack which depending on their size, could be near impossible. They may not have much of a choice.

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Kids have been fapping in the shower for as long as indoor plumbing has been a thing. They’ll be fine.

In my teens, I lived with my mom and sister in a singlewide trailer home, about 800sf with three tiny bedrooms. It wasn’t child abuse. We did spend a lot of time outside, and we had to be very choosy about furniture, but it was a good design (each bedroom had a full-size closet, and the bathroom somehow had enough…